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Author(s):	Kieran W. Taylor

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1611178649
Pages:	210	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A chronicle of perseverance and hope in the face of economic crises and political change

Charleston and the Great Depression tells many stories of the city during the 1930san era of tremendous want, hope, and changethrough a collection of forty annotated primary documents. Included are letters, personal accounts, organizational reports, meeting minutes, speeches, photographs, oral history excerpts, and trial transcripts. Together they reveal the various ways in which ordinary lowcountry residentslargely excluded from formal politicsresponded to the era's economic and social crises and made for themselves a "New Deal."

Arranged in chronological order, the documents include Mayor Burnet R. Maybank's 1931 inaugural address, in which the thirty-two-year-old merchant-turned-politician warned grimly of worsening hardship  the trial testimony of Benjamin Rivers, an African American worker executed by the state after being convicted of murdering a Charleston police officer  horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's detailed walking tour of the city, in which the visiting New Englander painted a fascinating but romanticized portrait of Charleston that somehow managed to overlook the adversities facing the local population  and Susan Hamilton's powerful and contradictory memories of her enslavement, gathered as part of the Federal Writers Project.

The Great Depression was an era of economic crises and political change but was also a period of great hope and possibility as Americans from across the political spectrum persevered through hard times, driven by the conviction that government power could and should be used to alleviate suffering and create opportunities to better people's lives. These documents capture the voices of diverse Charleston residentsfrom farmers and dockworkers to students, ministers, public officials, and social workersas they struggled and strove for a better city and a better country.
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